Valiant has slid us a first look at Harbinger Renegade #0. The November release by Rafer Roberts and Juan José Ryp is one of the setup pieces for the upcoming Harbinger Wars 2 event and features the new “Stormbringer” villain unleashed on the modern world.

Official PR and some art follow:

Valiant is proud to reveal your first look inside HARBINGER RENEGADE #0 – AN ALL-NEW JUMPING-ON POINT and MUST-READ MILESTONE building a bridge between the bloodstained fallout of “MASSACRE” and HARBINGER WARS 2, Valiant’s seismic 2018 crossover event! On November 8th, multiple Harvey Award nominee Rafer Roberts (Plastic Farm) and incendiary artist Juan José Ryp (BRITANNIA) bring the Valiant Universe’s most powerful forces to bear before a dreaded and unrepentant foe that’s more ancient, more sinister, and more dangerous than anything they’ve faced before…

Beneath the wreckage of the Harbinger Foundation, there is a secret that even Toyo Harada grew to fear. A secret simply known as… the Stormbringer.

And Alexander Solomon is about to set it free.

This near-immortal telekinetic has troubled mankind for centuries… and left the ruins of civilizations it in its wake. Now, for the first-time, the modern-day Valiant Universe confronts the reality of its evil head on in an all-new, standalone battle royale revisiting Solomon’s decades-old gambit to unleash the Stormbringer’s wrath… and guest-starring H.A.R.D. Corps, the Bleeding Monk, and more of HARBINGER’s most important and influential characters across the ages!

Out of the ashes of “MASSACRE,” the march towards the most consequential Valiant event of all time continues with an epic revelation at the heart of the HARBINGER mythos, only in HARBINGER RENEGADE #0 – featuring covers by Clayton Henry (HARBINGER WARS), Roberto de la Torre(Daredevil), Juan José Ryp (NINJAK), Khari Evans (HARBINGER), and Ben Tiesma (BLOODSHOT’S DAY OFF)!

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